Pan American World Airways.

Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its financial collapse on December 4, 1991. Founded in 1927 as a scheduled air mail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba, the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry, including the widespread use of jet aircraft, jumbo jets, and computerized reservation systems. Identified by its blue globe logo and the use of the word "Clipper" in aircraft names and call signs, the airline was a cultural icon of the 20th century and the unofficial flag carrier of the United StatesThe Pan Am brand was resurrected four times after 1991, but the reincarnations were related to the original Pan Am in name only.
In November 2010 Pan American Airways, Inc., was resurrected for a fifth time. The company's inaugural flight was to Monterrey, Mexico on November 12, 2010. The airline has said it will carry cargo only at this stage but intends to announce passenger service by 2011Pan American World Airways (Pan Am I) Trademarks and some assets were purchased by Eclipse Holdings, Inc. (Pan Am II) at an auction by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court (SDNY) on December 2-3, 1993. The scheduled airline rights were sold to Pan American Airways (DE) (Pan Am III) on December 20-29, 1993 by Eclipse Holdings (which was to retain the Pan Am charter rights (Pan Am II) and operate through its subsidiary Pan Am Charters, Inc. (now Airways Corporation).The first operated from 1996 to 1998, with a focus on low-cost, long-distance flights between the U.S. and the Caribbean with the IATA airline designator PN.The second was unrelated to the first and was a small regional carrier based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that operated between 1998 and 2004. It found its niche in operating usually at smaller airports near major airports, such as Pease International (Portsmouth), and Gary Municipal Airport, in Indiana. It used the IATA code PA, and the ICAO code PAA.
Boston-Maine Airways, a sister company of the second reincarnation, operated the "Pan Am Clipper Connection" brand from 2004 to February 2008.
A domestic airline in the Dominican Republic, descended from the company's first reincarnation, continues to trade as Pan Am Dominicana.
Pan American Airways and World-Wide Consolidated Logistics, Inc. will open cargo service to Latin America in 2011.Pan American's Globe Aware Logo appears on the side of an interplanetary 'Pan Gal' (as in Pan Galactic) spaceship liner in the 2004 remake of the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica. The spaceship is part of the refugee convoy looking for the planet 'Earth'.
A Pan American Airways System airplane takes Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) and Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III (Shia LaBeouf) from New York City to Havana and then to Mexico City, on their way to Cuzco, Peru in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
A term used in popular psychology is "Pan American (or Pan Am) Smile." Named after the greeting flight attendants (or at least actresses playing flight attendants on TV advertisements) supposedly gave to passengers. It consists of a perfunctory mouth movement without the activity of facial muscles around the eyes that characterizes a genuine smile.
In 2011, ABC announced a new television series based on the lives of a 1960s Pan Am flight crew. The series, titled Pan Am, began airing in September 201Pan Am Flight 281 was hijacked from New York to Cuba in 1968.